The world isn't all diamonds and gold

"Denouncing evil is a far cry from doing good.¨ -Philip Gourevitch

[doctoralphys]

these are all from within the last 2 days

[readingatthedisco]

information about this horrific shooting

what happened?

-Omar Mateen acted alone in shooting over 100 people at Pulse, a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida at 2am Sunday morning

-Omar had a 3 hour standoff with police, and was eventually shot dead

-50 were killed, 53 were injured

-this is the worst mass shooting America has seen

-this is the worst act of terrorism since 9/11

-police say Omar was organized and well prepared

-he was armed with an assault rifle, a handgun and an unspecified “device”

-this was an act of terror and hate

things to remember.

-it was latin night last night at Pulse

-the night was being hosted by trans women of color

-do not erase the fact that this was a hate crime against people in the lgbt+ community

-be respectful to the families affected by this tragedy

-some people could have been outed if they were killed or injured

-Omar’s father has stated that Omar was indeed homophobic and became angry after seeing two men kissing

-this shooting had nothing to do with religion

-here are some tweets about this tragedy from various people

-support everyone in this time of need. please

-there have been threats on other places such as the LA pride parade. please be careful.

what can i do to help?

-blood banks in Orlando are at capacity - if you wish to donate, schedule an appointment for later this week

-when the blood banks are no longer full, they will need O-, O+, and AB plasma

-donors must be over the age of 16, healthy, and weigh over 100 pounds

-oneblood has not lifted its ban on lgbt+ men giving blood

-oneblood is in need of water, juice, snacks, and fruit for those donating (drop them off here)

-here is a check-in page to help people locate friends and family

-family hotline: [phone]

-for emergency blood donations:

Orlando West Michigan Donor Center

345 W Michigan Street, Ste. 106, Orlando, FL 32806

Orlando Main Donor Center

8669 Commodity Circle,  Orlando, FL 32819

Oviedo Donor Center

1954 W. State Road 426, Oviedo, FL 32765

-bloodmobile locations:

Asbury United Methodist Church 220 West Horatio Ave. Maitland, FL 32751

St. Luke’s United Methodist Church 4851 S. Apopka Vineland Rd. Orlando, FL 32819

Metro Church 1491 East State Rd. 434 Winter Springs, FL 32708

-there is a gofundme now set up for the victims and their families

-you can donate to Orlando hospitals here

-The Center is an lgbt+ organization and is accepting donations here

-Orlando Youth Alliance is and lgbt+ organization and is accepting donations here

-how to contact representatives about gun control

if you need to talk.

-The Trevor Project: always open, for lgbt+ youth. call them at 1-866-488-7386.

-Trans Lifeline: for transgender people. call them at US: [phone] or  Canada: [phone]

-Scarleteen: text them at [phone]

to the lgbt+ community: i love you so much. i am here for you. you deserve to live. stay strong. stay safe.

[geistermeister]

The media is not talking about it.

Yesterday, in Rio de Janeiro, a seventeen year-old was drugged and raped by 30 men. Yes, that number is right. Thirty men raped a girl. They also filmed her while she was unconscious, hurt and bleeding, and posted it to twitter. They took selfies next to her inert body, posted them, laughed and made crude jokes about it. 

If you try to find any reports on it, you’ll find ONE website reported it but treats the case as an ‘alleged’ rape. There are videos and pictures. Alleged rape.

I am yet to see ANY of the men I have on Facebook say something about it. So far, the only ones showing any kind of response to it are women. We are all disgusted, sad, angry, and feeling utterly powerless because we know that in our country, rape culture is still widely accepted and propagated. We feel defeated, but we will not stop fighting. We can’t.

[memosandries]

CNN has reported on this. CNN.com - www.cnn.com http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/27/americas/brazil-rape-social-media/index.html

This is outrageous. PLEASE REBLOG THIS BECAUSE TUMBLR FILTERS THESE POSTS IF YOU’RE ON SAFE SEARCH. The only way to get it out is to REBLOG.

[geistermeister]

Yes! Thanks to the huge repercussion this case got on social media, it got the attention it deserves from the actual mainstream media.

[dfjks74r78hdg-deactivated201603]

a new law is about to be passed in Saudi Arabia that will allow the government to execute people for coming out or being openly gay online.

ignoring the fact that this is literally something out of some kind of dystopian novel, in the interests of safety i’ve emptied out my face tag and may temporarily deactivate or password protect this blog.

please reblog this and get the word out, and if you pray, please pray for me and my fellow Saudi LGBTQ+/MOGAI family.

[amarperdona-deactivated20180311]

Yesterday a terrorist killed 41 people in a stadium in Al-Asriya, a few miles from Baghdad. It was a football tournament. Seventeen aged between 10 and 16 died. Had it happened in Europe, the entire world would be weeping; our politicians would spend hours saying how Islam hates the West and how we should ‘close the borders’ to refugees. But these boys died in Iraq, and some bombs are not as loud as others. May they rest in peace. 

[n--hale]

If you're voting for Bernie Sanders

please remember:

not many are aware, but a president is extremely, extremely, extremelyyyy limited without a supporting senate and congress.

for example, if the majority of the party is republican, as it is with Obama, most of the bills and “promises” brought up will be vetoed and denied by the congress without us knowing, thus resulting in us blaming the president when in reality, the president needs OUR help even after being selected.

voting does NOT stop after the presidential election. the president of your choice winning does NOT mean the fight is over.

if you support and want all the things Bernie Sanders is in favor of, and want to see change, please vote for a senate and congress that will support and pass these ideas as well.

so if you’re “feeling the Bern”, don’t be upset if you dont get free college tuition. so please, please, please, PLEASE… vote for a respectful, progressive, open minded senate & congress (:

[marisawhy]

Do not skip out on midterm elections. Do NOT skip out on midterms. DO NOT SKIP OUT ON MIDTERMS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

[beautyofathunderstorm]

[stuck-inasmalltown]

i don’t mean to be political, but what if everyone had basic human rights

[chocodingo]

And what if Donald Trump is an idiot

[stuck-inasmalltown]

this is the most popular addition to this post

[alexander]

[rohie-deactivated20191102]

people speak of countries, continents and even Earth with she/her pronouns because land is something you can own, and the belief that you can own a woman is still something that exists 

[just-shower-thoughts]

America treats its flag better than most of its people

[l1hym3neal]

[curiositykilledthejinn]

See the last part😂😂👌🏼

[mazelt0v]

exams would never be scheduled on christmas. no important sporting event would ever be played on easter. it’s about time that jewish holy days are given the same respect.

[tikkunolamorgtfo]

Exactly.

I should add that this isn’t limited to us Jews, either. In the past two years or so, both the Olympics and and the World Cup coincided with Ramadan, and a lot of Muslim athletes were left in the really shitty position of having to choose between either not fasting or putting their athletic performance at risk. If Christians had a fasting month, you bet your ass no sporting events would take place until it was over.

[votedami]

I am here for the Religious Solidarity movements.

[mysharona1987]

We want Paris to be remembered in 1,000 years and we don’t remember the names of the victims 10 minutes after reading them – we don’t remember Amine Ibnolmobarak, a Moroccan émigré who was designing an architectural solution to the 2,000 deaths at Mecca; we don’t remember Elsa Delplace and her mother Patricia San Martin, who died shielding Delplace’s young son from bullets. We remember that the female terrorist was blond and one had no pants on. We remember that the terrorists came in with refugees even though they don’t seem to have done, especially since they were all French or Belgian. We expect our descendants to remember Daft Punk and we don’t even remember that invading Iraq caused the birth and rise of Isis. And we won’t remember any of this once the new series of Britain’s Got Talent starts.

Frankie Boyle (via mysharona1987)

[lilhippiedreamer]

10 Reasons to Hate Donald Trump

1. His ex wife admitted that he forced her into sexual situations.

2. He wants to spend billions of dollars of our already dwindling budget to build a wall to stop Mexicans from coming into the country.

3. When asked hard hitting and relevant questions by a female he avoided them and went on to blame it on her period.

4. He gave out a senators private number out of spite.

5. If he can’t fix his hair how can we expect him to fix our economy?

6. He accused all immigrants of being rapists.

7. He believes immigrants stealing jobs is actually a thing.

8. He believes that sexual assault is to be expected when men and women are put together.

9. He’s disgusted by breast feeding.

10. He’s overall just a sexist, racist bully who uses his money in order to push people around. 

[punkrock-astrology]

I’m not even american but oh my god don’t let this scumbag be your fucking president

[sagethedinosaur]

11. He wants to shut down all mosques, though he knows that it may be illegal

12. He wants to make all Muslims wear a badge and carry an ID that says that they’re Muslim

Remind you of anything?

[borenii-deactivated20160609]

Reblogging again for that^

[polkadot-cookie]

13. He said that autistic children just need to be properly disciplined and that people suffering through depression and PTSD are acting as though they’re the first generation to struggle with these issues.

[bogbitchthings]

everyone needs to see this

[e123-omga]

14. He wanted to set up a “humane deportation force” That would rid America of Illegal immigrants.    

Eerily enough, the Nazis had proposed a similar idea of wanting the Jews out of Europe; to set up a deportation force to exile the Jews from Europe. (source)

Wake up America.You are literally voting for the modern Adolf Hitler

[just-the-way-youre-not-blog]

15. He made fun of a NY Times reporter’s disability.

[bushra-aa]

16. He said that if he would date Ivanka if she wasnt his daughter.

[sensitiveblackperson1-deactivat]

And if yall wanna bring up wage gap

this is your wage gap